I just couldn't resist taking the time to pick out the important lessons off from her talk when she
received her commendation from Venerable Jingkong some 3 years ago. I may have missed a couple of points,but I think I
have somewhat covered most of the pointers. I only have pockets of time to do this and I thought the best format would be in the form of
a 'poetry'. And I call this 'Dare You Make This Change' -- Lessons from Hsu Chih. She is an extremely humble person, but I thought she's got
lots of cool factor that is humble yet gutsy; old yet young. Here's my shot for the day:
想年轻 就年轻!
Think young and thou shalf be young!
吃
很浪费时间
干嘛
买菜 洗菜
又煮菜
餐餐洗碗
多麻烦 ！
Eating is a waste of time
Why waste it on
Buying food, washing them
& cooking them
After whish
the hell of washing follows
What a chore!
不如看书
做有意人的事情 更妙 !
Might as well read books
Do chores to benefit mankind Such is a pure wonder!
她
只有爱人的宗教
没有别的
心清静
头脑只为为众生
She
Only harbors the idea of Love
Love is her religion
Nothing else.
The heart is at peace
And the mind is for humanity
切勿动干火!
因为
发脾气 浪费时间
伤害自己 伤害别人
Boil not your head
'Cos
Fuming churns away your time
Harms yourself & others
不拿病人的钱
人家给她的钱
她全给其他穷人
交水电 房租
买粮食
Not taking patient's money
Whatever money that is given to her
She passes it on to the poor
To pay for bills, rent
To buy food.
她从不浪费
因照顾的人很穷，所以
一定一样跟他们一样的穷
She never wastes
'Cos
there are many poor people to take care of
That's Why
she feels she needs to be as poor as them
爱
她信仰是个‘爱’
永远爱世人 爱众生
Love
Is her mantra
Always love humanity, love all fellow beings
她投其四好：
存好心，说好话
行好事， 做好人
百年功绩
就在她 执着的博爱
She focuses on mainly four beliefs:
Keep a good heart, say the wise words
Do the good deeds, practice being a good person
100 years of achievements
lay on the principle of compassion.
苦人太多，贫穷人太多
跟最穷的人一起往来
她的生活要比他们好，她的心不安
这是真的，不但自己心不安
穷人看了会怕；
Sad people are many, poor people are many
Mingle among the poor and interact with them
She feels uneasy when she is better than them
This is real: Not that she feels uneasy
The poor who sees the better off are uneasy
必须过和他们同样的生活
跟大多数人打成一片
就是和平共处的苦心状举！
Henceforth the effort to experience the poor's life
Be part of the majority
Such heartfelt emphathy is the foundation of peace !
-- compiled in the stanzas in the middle of the night by Karen Fu...
Night All !
PS: The basis of peace formed by Teresa Hsu may be a tall order. If not almost impossible, but I believe that if we could move towards the basis of empathy in her direction, we would have sorted out a lot of problems in life. The essence of thrift, sharing and compassion could take us all out of misery that is stemmed out from jealousy, greed and poverty.
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